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  • Page 1 Internet Camera ICA-500 User’s Manual...

  • Page 2: Declaration Of Conformity

    ICA-500 User’s Manual Copyright Copyright (C) 2004 PLANET Technology Corp. All rights reserved. The products and programs described in this User’s Manual are licensed products of PLANET Technology, This User’s Manual contains proprietary information protected by copyright, and this User’s Manual and all accompanying hardware, software, and documentation are copyrighted.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Hardware Installation ... 9 Logging in to Homepage... 11 Before Operation ... 11 Access the ICA-500 from the Internet Explorer for the first time ... 14 Logging in as an ordinary User... 16 Logging in as an Administrator ... 16 Operating the ICA-500...

  • Page 4: Overview

    This user’s guide explains how to operate the ICA-500 from a computer. Basically, the user’s guide is written to be read on the computer display. However, users might consider printing it out to access easily and read it before you operate the ICA-500. Introduction ICA-500 is an inexpensive fully scalable surveillance technology.
  • Page 5 ICA-500 User’s Manual Minimum System Requirement Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later VGA Monitor resolution 1024 x 768 Pentium III 800MHz or above Memory Size: 128MB or above VGA card resolution: 800x600 or above Windows ME, 2000, XP, or 2003...

  • Page 6: Package Contents

    Terminator for Alarm I/O x 1 Installation software and manual CD x 1 Note: Using a power supply with a different voltage than the one included with the ICA-500 will cause damage and void the warranty for this product. 6/80...

  • Page 7: Physical Details

    Alarm I/O Connector The ICA-500 provides a terminal block with 8 pins of connectors located on the center of the back panel. There are 3 pins for two alarm inputs and 5 pins are for alarm output. The I/O connectors are physical interface to sense and/or activate alarm signals to a variety of external sensors or alarms.
  • Page 8 ICA-500, the LED will be off and flash orange while some one accesses this ICA-500. DC Power and Video Output Cable The DC power input and video output cable is located on the ICA-500’s back panel. The input power is 12VDC. Note that supply the power to the ICA-500 with standard power adapter included in package.

  • Page 9: Hardware Installation

    ICA-500 User’s Manual Hardware Installation 1. Fix the ICA-500 to Ceiling Use 4 screws to fix the ICA-500 onto the ceiling as below. You can also put the ICA-500 on the table directly. 2. Plug an Ethernet cable into ICA-500 Connect an Ethernet cable to the LAN socket located on the ICA-500’s back panel and attach it to...
  • Page 10 AC power. When you have installed the ICA-500 well, the status LED will turn green. It means the system is booting up successfully. Furthermore, if you have a proper network connection, and access to the...

  • Page 11: Logging In To Homepage

    Before Operation Install the IP Address of ICA-500 When you installed your ICA-500 on your LAN environment, you may execute IPEditV3 to discover ICA-500’s IP address. IPCam Finder Program (IPEditV3) is used to scan the Installed ICA-500, setting the ICA-500 Name, IP address settings.
  • Page 12 Install the ICA-500 with an ADSL Router If the ICA-500 was installed on the LAN with an ADSL router, then the ICA-500 can get a dynamic IP address from the DHCP server. However, if the ICA-500 wants to be access...
  • Page 13 ICA-500 User’s Manual By now, you have finished your entire PC configuration for ICA-500. 13/80...

  • Page 14: Access The Ica-500 From The Internet Explorer For The First Time

    Access the ICA-500 from the Internet Explorer for the first time Start the web browser on the computer and type the IP address of the ICA-500 you want to monitor as below: The Login Window of the ICA-500 is displayed: Type in your login name and password under “USERNAME”...
  • Page 15 ICA-500 User’s Manual The IE Web Page will display the “Security Warning” window, select “Yes” to install and run the ActiveX control into your PC. Display the image. After the ActiveX control was installed and ran, the first image will be displayed.

  • Page 16: Logging In As An Ordinary User

    Logging in as an Administrator If you log in the ICA-500 as the Administrator, you can perform all the settings provided within the software. The Administrator may be logged in at any time, regardless of the number of the users being accessed.

  • Page 17: Operating The Ica-500

    ICA-500 User’s Manual Operating the ICA-500 Start-up screen will be as follow no matter an ordinary users or an administrator. Advanced Function Viewing Area Control Panel Viewing Area: Images from the ICA-500 17/80...

  • Page 18: Control Panel Area

    ICA-500 User’s Manual Control Panel Area Control Panel Area: ICA-500 Manipulation and image quality control Camera direction Up, Down, Left, Right, Home Camera Speed Adjust camera focus Recall/Preset Mode Video Resolution Preset or Recall positions Video Brightness adjustment positions Frame rate adjustment via...
  • Page 19 Recall: Set camera position to preset location Video Adjust Video resolution Resolution ICA-500 provides 4 resolutions: 640x480, 352x288, 320x240, 176x144 For NTSC camera: 320x240 is suitable For PAL camera: 352x288 and 176x144 are suitable However, all resolution are available for NTSC and PAL camera...

  • Page 20: Advanced Function Area

    Setting menu consists of the Basic menu and the Application menu. The Basic menu is used for basic settings of the ICA-500, and the Application menu is used for setting various applications according to individual. Click on each menu name to display its setting page.
  • Page 21 Turn on “Remote camera control”: users will be able to use right-side control panel vice versa. Log: User can check the log information of the ICA-500, including the Main Info, Appended Info, Operator IP, Operator MAC, and Time. Select the “View” button to check the log file.
  • Page 22 ICA-500 User’s Manual 22/80...
  • Page 23 • 352x288 • 640x480 Image Quality: The ICA-500 provide 3 quality setting, Clarity: Video is better but frame rate may be slower Fluency: Video is not as good as Clarity but frame rate may be higher Default: System default value.
  • Page 24 ICA-500 User’s Manual Image, Rotate, Mirror, Focus Mode, White Balance Mode: These functions are available for PTZ ICA-500, only. It’s not functional for this model. Saturation, Sharpness, Contrast, Hue: To control the camera, key in these values respectively. Camera Tour: Tour Name: The group name of the sequence of camera tour Dwelling Time: The time period between every tour point.
  • Page 25 DHCP: DHCP: Stands for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. “DHCP ON” is default network setting of the ICA-500, when a ICA-500 is joined into the LAN, it will issue the DHCP packets to request an IP address that is dynamically assigned by the DHCP server. If it can not get a DHCP address on a limited tries, the ICA-500 will assigned a default IP address as the default IP address.
  • Page 26 ICA-500. Suggest keeping the Http port 1 as 80 to make sure the ICA-500 can be accessed by the default HTTP port setting access on the LAN. http://xx.xx.xx.xx/ If multiple ICA-500 is installed on the LAN, also required to be accessed from the WAN, then the Http port 2 can be changed as the virtual server port mapping to support multiple ICA-500.
  • Page 27 ICA-500 User’s Manual of your choice to begin using it. Please refer to the home page of the service for detailed instructions. A DDNS service works by uploading your WAN IP address to its servers periodically. Your gateway-router may support DDNS directly, in which case you can enter your DDNS account information into your router and it will update the DDNS servers automatically when your IP address changes.
  • Page 28 The ICA-500 can directly connect to the ADSL, however, it should be setup on LAN environment to setup the PPPoE information, and then connect to the ADSL modem. Power on again, then the ICA-500 will dial on to the ISP connect to the WAN through the ADSL modem.
  • Page 29 ICA-500 User’s Manual the ISP. • If the check box of “Send Mail after dialed” was checked, then the “MailServer“ and “User on the MailServer” field need to be filled. • If the mail server needs authentication, then the check box of “Password” needs to be checked, and password information need to inputted.
  • Page 30 ICA-500 User’s Manual User : Setup user name, password and login privilege You can set up to 10 different usernames and passwords. Although there are 10 sets only, you may have one group of people use one username and password to login.
  • Page 31 ICA-500 User’s Manual IP Filter : Setup user login right (This function should be used with function “User” respectively). You can enter 10 different user’s IP address, which are allowing enter or disregarding by the ICA-500. You should configure “User” before “IP Filter”. Each “User” username and password matches with one “IP Filter”...
  • Page 32 ICA-500 User’s Manual & Function Notification The page of user setting is very closely related to the IP filter settings. While the administrators are setting these two pages, they should notice that login authorities are not only based on the login names but also the range of IP addresses. Administrators could reject login users according to both login names and IP addresses.
  • Page 33 You may install 2 different sensors or turn on motion detection for your security purpose. By definition, if any motion detected or sensor has been activated, the ICA-500 can issue a message or send a mail out to the person whose mail is assigned within SMTP.

  • Page 34: Application Setting

    Application Symbol Item Action FTP Client Setup the ICA-500 as a client site and configure Server site in order to upload images to server FTP Server Setup the ICA-500 as a server site and allow remote sites to check memory space availability...
  • Page 35 ICA-500 User’s Manual FTP Client : Setup the ICA-500 as a client site and configure Server site in order to upload images to server When alarm was enabled, user can send the captured images to the pre-set FTP server. Entering server name and your login username and password, you will be able to upload those previous captured image to the FTP server.
  • Page 36 Select “SAVE” to save the setting. FTP Server : Setup ICA-500 as a server site and allow remote sites to check memory space availability. This function is currently not available yet. Please contact your local dealer for later upgrade information.
  • Page 37 ICA-500 User’s Manual You may setup SMTP mail parameters for future event-message receiving such as motion detected or sensor activated. SMTP server name: Type the SMTP server name up to 64 characters, or the IP address of the SMTP server.
  • Page 38 ICA-500 User’s Manual Alarm 2 : Setup Alarm Output 2 action via manual or event You can issue an alarm output action by manual or event. Image memory and provide any warning such as “Disk Full”. This function is currently not available yet.
  • Page 39 : Setup motion detection area and sensor sensitivity The motion detection is implemented by a patented software algorithm, it runs on the ICA-500, due to a larger processing power of motion detection, the overall performance of ICA-500 will be degraded, the frame rate may be reduced.
  • Page 40 ICA-500 User’s Manual Time Setting You can setup the ICA-500 time or make it synchronized with PC or remote server. Also, you may select your time zone in order to synchronize time locally. Synchronize the time with PC’s time: This is the default time adjust mode, the check box of “Synchronize with PC’s time”...
  • Page 41 Select “NTP” Button Key in the NTP server’s IP address. Press “SAVE” to activate it. After the ICA-500 gets the time from NTP server, it will update the ICA-500’s time field. Popup Setup event message while motion or sensors has been activated When any one of alarms enabled, and one of them detected, then a message window will be displayed on the screen.

  • Page 42: Firmware Upgrade

    Download the latest firmware file from Planet. Unzip this firmware file to binary file and store it into your PC. The file name should be XXX.BIN for the ICA-500. Then follow the steps as bellows carefully: 1. Select “Firmware update”...
  • Page 43 ICA-500 User’s Manual 5. Press the “here” button to begin to upgrade firmware. 6. Press the “OK” button to continue. The upgrade progress status information will be displayed on the screen. 43/80...
  • Page 44 Please be aware that you should not turn off the power during updating the firmware and wait for finish message. Once the upgrading process completed, the ICA-500 will reboot the system automatically. Note: please wait for 20 seconds, and then you can connect to ICA-500 again. Factory Default : Recall the ICA-500 factory default setting The “Factory Default”...

  • Page 45: Trigger

    ICA-500 User’s Manual Trigger You can send an image or output a trigger to control the alarm output, using Trigger section on the main page. Action Meaning Upload a captured image to server Mail Mail captured image to specific mail address...

  • Page 46: Capture

    ICA-500 User’s Manual Capture You can capture current image and save it to storage media. The image is saved in the JPEG format. Noted: This function is available for logging-in as an administrator only. 46/80...

  • Page 47: Rightmousebutton Of Activex Control

    ICA-500 User’s Manual RightMouseButton of ActiveX Control On the view of video, the plug-in ActiveX control support a lot of functions by clicking the right mouse button. This feature only supports on the ActiveX control within Microsoft® Internet Explorer. On the ActiveX control, right click the RightMouseButton, then a menu pop-up. This menu provides feature that are unique to the ActiveX control.
  • Page 48 ICA-500 User’s Manual “Actual size “ Make the image show as the actual size, the “Splits” function does not work on this mode. “StatusBar” A status bar display on the button of the image. “View” It makes the image resizable.
  • Page 49 ICA-500 User’s Manual After the “Actual size” was selected, the image will displayed as the actual size, in this example, the image displays as a 640 x 480 pixels. After the “Statusbar” was selected, a status bar will be displayed on the bottom of the image.
  • Page 50 ICA-500 User’s Manual • Status Open/Close camera status • Resolution 640x480, 320x240, 352x288, 176x144 • Quality High/Low • Split 1x1, 2x2, 3x3, 4x4 • Rotate - Normal: “Rotate 0”, the default state. - Rotate: “Rotate 180”, rotate the image by 180 degree; used on the camera was up side down mounted •...
  • Page 51 ICA-500 User’s Manual The ICA-500 provides 4 setting for Window split, it can display different time frame images of the selected ICA-500. The time string with green characters is the current displayed image. 4 type of Split window, • 1 x 1 (Default) •...
  • Page 52 ICA-500 User’s Manual “Rotate” After the “Rotate 180” was selected, the image displays up side down. 52/80...

  • Page 53: Image Recording

    ICA-500 User’s Manual “Quality” The control is the same as control panel’s “Quality”. “Resolution” The control is the same as control panel’s “Resolution”. “Image Recording…-> Save as JPEG” Select “Image Recording…” The “Image Recording” pop-up window displays, select “Save as JPEG”...
  • Page 54 ICA-500 User’s Manual Select “Start” to do the images download and save as JPEG files into the local PC. During the download and save as JPEG files process, the yellow mark will be displayed on the right-down position to indicate the saving as JPEG files operation.
  • Page 55 ICA-500 User’s Manual Before the “Download Number” of images is reached, or “Download No Limit”, select “Stop Image Recording” to stop the image recording process. After “Stop Image Recording”, list files, these files named file_name_prefixed_yyyy_mm_dd_hh_mm_ss_ms.jpg 55/80...
  • Page 56 ICA-500 User’s Manual “Image Recording…-> Save as AVI” 1. Select “Image Recording…” 2. The “Image Recording” pop-up window displays, select 3. “Save as AVI” 4. Input the ”Avi Frame” and “Max Jpeg Num” on each AVI file, until the “Stop Image Recording”...
  • Page 57 ICA-500 User’s Manual Select “Start” to start the AVI files recording. During the AVI file recording, a red icon displays on right-down position of the image to indicate the AVI saving process. 57/80...
  • Page 58 ICA-500 User’s Manual Press the “Stop Image Recording” to stop the save as AVI process. After the “Stop Image Recording”, list the file on the selected saved directory, the file were saved by the filename_prefix_date_time.avi. 58/80...
  • Page 59 ICA-500 User’s Manual The AVI files can be display by the standard Windows Media Player, but it needs the DixectX 8.1 or higher version to be installed. 59/80...

  • Page 60: Save Current Picture As

    ICA-500 User’s Manual “Save Current Picture As …” Use the “Save Current Picture As …” to save the current display image into the local PC. Input the saved “File name”, select “Save” 60/80...
  • Page 61 ICA-500 User’s Manual If you like to retrieve the saved image, select the file to display the saved image by using any one of graph editing tools. 61/80...

  • Page 62: Appendix A: Restore Factory Default Settings

    4. Wait at least 8 seconds and release the tool. Then the ICA-500 has been restored to default settings. Note: Restoring the factory default setting will lose the all-previous settings forever. User needs to run the IP Finder program to search the ICA-500 and configure it to let the ICA-500 work properly again. 62/80...

  • Page 63: Appendix B: Alarm I/O Connector

    Connector Interfacing to the External I/O An external sensor that senses physical changes in the area ICA-500 is monitoring can activate some features of the ICA-500. These changes can include intrusion detection or certain physical change in the monitored area. For examples, the external sensor can be a door switch or an infrared motion detector.
  • Page 64 THAT REQUIRE LARGE AMOUNTS OF CURRENT. IN SOME CASES, A CUSTOM INTERFACE CIRCUIT (CUSTOMER PROVIDED) MAY HAVE TO BE USED. SERIOUS DAMAGE TO ICA-500 MAY RESULT IF A DEVICE IS CONNECTED TO THE EXTERNAL I/O THAT EXCEEDS ITS ELECTRICAL CAPABILITY.

  • Page 65: Appendix C: Troubleshooting & Frequently Asked Questions

    Secure the power connector and re powers it on again. • If the problem is not solved, the ICA-500 might be faulty. Contact your dealer for further help. The network cabling is The ICA-500 uses Category 5 UTP cable allowing 10 and/or required for the ICA-500.
  • Page 66 Check IP address of ICA-500 by using the IP Finder program. the ICA-500. IP Finder program • Re power the ICA-500 if cannot find the unit within 1 cannot find ICA-500. minutes. • Do not connect ICA-500 over a router. IP Finder program cannot detect ICA-500.
  • Page 67 • If it’s not working after above procedure, reset ICA-500 to default setting and installed it again. • If the problem is not solved, the ICA-500 might be faulty. Contact your dealer for further help. Image or video does not •...
  • Page 68 • Ethernet switching hub can smooth the frame rate especially in viewing on the Multi-Camera screen. • Your connection to the ICA-500 does not have enough Blank screen or very bandwidth to support a higher frame rate for the streamed slow video when audio is image size.
  • Page 69 • If the object is dark, the image will flicker. Make the condition around the ICA-500 brighter. The video images might be noisy if the ICA-500 is located in Noisy images occur. a very low light environment. Make the condition around the ICA-500 brighter.

  • Page 70: Appendix D: Ping Ip Address

    IP address is accessible by sending a packet to the specific address and waiting for a reply. It’s also a very useful tool to confirm ICA-500 installed or if the IP address conflicts with any other devices over the network.

  • Page 71: Appendix E: Bandwidth Estimation

    Appendix E: Bandwidth Estimation The frame rate of video transmitted from the ICA-500 depends on connection bandwidth between client and server and quality setting of server. Here is a guideline to help you roughly estimate the bandwidth requirements form your ICA-500.

  • Page 72: Appendix F: Time Zone Table

    ICA-500 User’s Manual Appendix F: Time Zone Table GMT stands for Greenwich Mean Time, which is the global time that all time zones are measured from. 72/80...
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  • Page 75: Appendix G: Ddns Application

    ICA-500 User’s Manual Appendix G: DDNS Application 1. Preface If you have a Cable modem, xDSL, ISDN or Dialup, this is a great way to host your own Web Server, FTP Server, Mail Server, Video Server or other TCP/IP Service.
  • Page 76 ICA-500 User’s Manual 3. Application Steps—DDNS & Domain Name (1). Visit the following web site: http://www.dyndns.org/ (Pink No.1) (2). Click “Account” (Pink No. 2) (3). After the columns show up at the left side, click “Create Account”. (4). Fill the application agreement and necessary information.
  • Page 77 ICA-500 User’s Manual (5). Check your e-mail mailbox. There will be an e-mail with a title “Your DynDNS.org Account Information “. Click the hyperlink address to confirm the DDNS service that you just applied. Then DDNS you applied activated. 77/80...
  • Page 78 ICA-500 User’s Manual (6). Enter the web page http://www.dyndns.org/ again. Input your username and password that you just applied to login administration interface of DDNS service. (7). If the correct username and password are input, you can see the following picture at the top-right of the login page.
  • Page 79 ICA-500 User’s Manual (10). We could create a domain name without any charge at this step. First, we input the host name. (Pink No.1) Then we pick a domain that is easy to remember. (Pink No.2) Finally, click the “Add Host” to submit the domain name information.
  • Page 80 ICA-500 User’s Manual 4. Setup the DDNS and PPPoE At last, users have to enter the web page of video server or IP camera and setup the necessary information of DDNS and PPPoE after the application of DDNS service. Please check the user manual to access the DDNS and PPPoE pages.

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